Wish You Well

Description:

Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Domestic fiction,  Bildungsromans,  Natural gas reserves,  Girls,  Land tenure,  Fiction,  Women landowners,  Family relationships,  Traffic accident victims,  Farm life,  Mountain life,  Traffic accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, family life,  Virginia, fiction,  nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-06-07,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction, family life, general,  General,  Fiction / General,  Family Life,  Historical - General,  Baldwin, James - Prose & Criticism,  Popular American Fiction,  Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General

Places: Virginia,  Southern Appalachian Region

Times: 20th century